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>>RBBron+(OP)
Never heard of it, but sounds dangerous helping out rapists and murderers and such.

>>sowww+G9
Perhaps, but unless you want a permanent under class of people unable to find real employment, there needs to be an on-ramp. Either someone is too dangerous to have in public (which case they should still be imprisoned), or they have served their sentence and their punishment is over.

>>Karuna+sa
To add to this, 45% of people in federal prison are there for a drug charge.

https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offen...

Only a little over 1/3rd are actually in prison for violent crime.

>>Sohcah+0d
That table looks like it sums to 100%, which is confusing. Many prisoners have been convicted of both drug and weapons charges. How is that represented?

My understanding is that while the rate of prisoners with drug charges is high, the rate of prisoners with only drug charges is a lot lower.